Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018

Summary

In 2022, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA was among 19 new ‘academicians’ to have been elected to the prestigious Academia Sinica, the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Wen-chin is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, and joins two other humanists in this year’s elections. The Academia Sinica was founded in China in 1928 to promote and undertake scholarly research in the sciences and humanities. After the ROC government moved to Taiwan in 1949, Academia Sinica was re-established in Taipei.

Current post

Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London

Publications

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Wen-ching Ouyang - Published in 2013 by Edinburgh University Press

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 2012 by Edinburgh University Press

Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition

Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 1997 by Edinburgh University Press

The Silk Roads of comparative literature

29 Jan 2019 Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA

At the heart of comparative literature worldwide is the idea of cultural encounter. Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores how we define and understand the field of comparative literature.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Max Deeg FBA

Max Deeg (b. 1958, Germany) is Professor in Buddhist Studies in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.

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Professor Anne Gerritsen FBA

Late imperial China, the early modern history of exchange between Asia and Europe, and especially the material culture of global exchange, therapeutic commodities, and the cultures and practices of merchants

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Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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